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See also:móil

FromMiddle Englishmollen(“to soften by wetting”), borrowed fromOld Frenchmoillier with the same meaning, fromVulgar Latin*molliō, *molliare, frommollis(“soft”).

moil (third-person singular simple presentmoils,present participlemoiling,simple past and past participlemoiled)

Totoil, to work hard.
- 1625,Francis Bacon,Of Plantations:
  Moil not too much underground, for the hope of mines is very uncertain, and useth to make the planters lazy in other things..
- 1693,John Dryden, “Tenth Satire of Juvenal”, inJuvenal and Persius:
  Now he mustmoil and drudge for one he loathes.
- 1849,Charles Kingsley,Alton Locke's Song:
  Why for sluggards cark andmoil?
- 1907, Robert W. Service, “The Cremation of Sam McGee”, inThe Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses:
  There are strange things done in the midnight sun
  By the men whomoil for gold;
  The Arctic trails have their secret tales
  That would make your blood run cold;
  The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
  But the queerest they ever did see
  Was that night on the marge of Lake Lebarge
  I cremated Sam McGee.
(intransitive) Tochurn continually; toswirl.
- 1952,Ralph Ellison, chapter 23, inInvisible Man:
  A crowd of men and womenmoiled like nightmare figures in the smoke-green haze.
(UK, transitive) Todefile ordirty.

moil (countable anduncountable,pluralmoils)

Hardwork.
- 1928,Harry Lauder, chapter VII, inRoamin' in the Gloamin',:
  I finally decided, my heart was really in my singing rather than in the drab, hardy soul- searing toil andmoil of a collier's existence.
Confusion,turmoil.
- 1948,Norman Mailer,The Naked and the Dead, Part I, Chapter 5:
  Croft no longer saw anything clearly; he could not have said at that moment where his hands ended and the machine gun began; he was lost in a vastmoil of noise out of which individual screams and shouts etched in his mind for an instant.
A spot; a defilement.
- 1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning,Aurora Leigh:
  You'd suppose
  A finished generation, dead of plague,
  Swept outward from their graves into the sun,
  Themoil of death upon them.

hard work

confusion

Of unclear origin; possibly fromFrenchmeule orHebrewמוהל(mohel,“ritual circumciser”), referring to the foreskin-like shape of the unwanted rim.

moil (countable anduncountable,pluralmoils)

(glassblowing) The glass circling the tip of ablowpipe orpunty, such as the residual glass after detaching a blown vessel, or the lower part of agather.
(glassblowing, blow molding) The excess material which adheres to the top, base, or rim of a glass object when it is cut or knocked off from a blowpipe or punty, or from the mold-filling process. Typically removed afterannealing as part of the finishing process (e.g. scored and snapped off).
(glassblowing) The metallic oxide from a blowpipe which has adhered to a glass object.